log files taking over the disk on new computer. Help?

Question

Just built my first pc and I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 (just that, not dual booting) I've got a 225 SSD and a TB HDD. Long story short, all was well and good until I ran out of memory like 3 weeks later ---> realized the TB HDD wasn't mounted, I mounted it and I'm still low on memory.

I thought it was a partitioning problem until someone pointed out it was my log file getting out of control. It's getting filled up real quick and I'm not sure how to go about it.

Here are the last 100 lines /var/log/kern.log hang on guys, its a doozie.

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.304085] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.304991] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.304993] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.304995] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.305876] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.305877] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)


Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.305879] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.306759] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.306761] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.306763] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.307765] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.307767] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.307769] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.308650] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.308652] ACPI Error: 
Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.308654] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.309534] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.309535] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.309537] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.310416] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.310418] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.310420] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.311300] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.311302] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.311304] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.312312] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.312313] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.312316] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.313195] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.313196] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.313198] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.314078] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.314080] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.314082] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.314962] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.314964] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.314966] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.315968] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.315969] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.315972] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.316851] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.316852] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.316854] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.317734] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.317736] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.317738] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.318617] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.318619] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.318621] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.319630] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.319632] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.319634] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.320527] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.320528] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.320530] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.321438] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.321439] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.321441] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.322322] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.322323] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.322326] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.323205] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.323207] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.323209] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.324238] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.324240] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.324242] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.325196] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.325198] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.325200] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.326119] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.326121] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.326123] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.327293] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.327295] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.327297] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.328488] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.328490] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.328494] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.329411] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.329413] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.329415] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.330294] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.330296] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.330298] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.331178] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.331180] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.331182] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.332224] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.332226] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.332228] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.333150] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.333152] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.333154] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.334033] ACPI Error: 
[PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.334035] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.334037] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.334916] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.334917] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808544df460), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)

Nov 26 18:53:34 underyourbed-desktop kernel: [ 2713.334920] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)

Answer 1

Your log files are getting out of control. If your computer is new, then you need to discover why the log files are so huge, but first you'll need to truncate, compress, or delete the log files in order for your system to have enough room to work. This answer tells what to do to make the log files smaller. But you should try and figure out what's going wrong before you delete all the log files.

I'd recommend that you edit the title of your question to something along the lines of "log files taking over the disk on new computer", since you have a log file problem rather than a partition problem. Editing your question should "bump" it so that it gets more attention. Also edit your question to show about the last 100 lines of /var/log/kern.log, the kernel log, which is your largest log file. You need to discover what is wrong that makes the log fill up so fast.

If you need to make more room immediately for the system to work, you can delete a few of the older log files.

To see the last 100 lines of kern.log, you can do this command on the command line: tail -n 100 /var/log/kern.log > ~/kern.log.truncated. That copies the last 100 lines of the log file to kern.log.truncated in your home folder, so you can paste it into your question.