Just set up a Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspian Lite, (no GUI) and have Boinc and SETI@home working great. Seems a bit slower than the full Raspian under a GUI X console.

Anyway, I have a file:

/var/lib/boinc-client/stderrdae.txt

that is filling up fast with:

dir_open: Could not open directory '/dev/input/mice' from '/var/lib/boinc-client'.

The file /dev/input/mice exists and it is a device file. It is a 0 byte or null file.

I believe this file is used somehow when the mouse is moved/used but with no GUI this file is moot.

File permissions on mice were set only as RW for root. As a quick check, I changed it (SU) for R/W for everyone but still errors.

Any thoughts or help on this.

In other Googling about, this error seems to be in package/app and would have to be fixed by the package authors. Hint.. hint!

Thanks for any help or work arounds. Not sure whether to set up a cron job to delete it every few days or what....

John

You can read through this thread which has the package maintainer for Ubuntu (amongst others) chiming in.

I don't think there is any fix for this for Raspbian Jessie Lite.

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Thanks for the reply Jord!

I was going to do a cron job but just deleted the error text file that was filling up for now and monitoring to see if some other log fills up or other error somewhere.

So far I see no other issue, but best to cron it and/or log rotate it.

I'll head over to the other forum and chime in.

Thanks again.

John

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Ah, do know that the normal file size of the logs will only be 2MB, before they roll over to an *.old format. The next roll-over removes the first *.old and gets overwritten with the contents of the present log.

This is true for all log files, but in majority for the stdoutdae.txt and stderrdae.txt files.

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