[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#843719: base: /var partition (13G) FILLED UP in few minutes after fresh install

[Oleksiy]

Package: base
Severity: normal
Tags: newcomer

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
  Nothing. System is freshly installed.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
  Just installed a fresh system from CD.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

DESCRIPTION:
After fresh install and first boot I get /var partition completely filled up
during few minutes. I discovered that it is filled by files kern.log,
daemon.log, messages and syslog. All files reside in /var/log. On text console
error messages
 "...rt2800cpi ...: firmware: failed to load rt2860.bin (-2)"

HOW I FIXED:
I installed firmware-ralink from non-free. Driver got loaded immediately and
error logs stopped filling immediately.

I thought that it's critical since filling up /var or even ROOT where /var and
/tmp aren't on separate partitions, could make system at least unusable.

The driver loader script should stop trying to load a driver after first try
and not bloat logs until disk will be filled up.

Regards



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)