Root partition filling up

[moredruid]

usually you should be able to keep your machine running for a long time (my max uptime for a linux machine at home was well over a year, at work we have systems that haven't been rebooted since they first came up 5 years ago (very customized systems, no patches etc.)). A reboot should only be needed if you want to boot into the latest kernel.

Anyway, sometimes a package doesn't upgrade cleanly. You can try to restart the daemon, that usually fixes the issues. Or if you want the easy fix: just reboot like you did.

[radioz]

Ok, looks like you got it fixed. Those two groups of errors are normal. I have them on my system occasionally as well.

[moredruid]

Those two groups of errors are normal.

That is not true by default, any error is not normal, otherwise it would not be an error.

The point is: how deep do you want to dig (or can you dig) or do you just accept it and do some housekeeping now and then.

[wendigo]

Yes, that's the thing... I'm not so proficient with linux to take care of it myself and I don't want bother you guys here with such not-so-important stuff

Anyway, thank you all very much for your assistance! Apart from fixing the issue it was a valuable lesson for me in using linux logs, too.