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The appliance is down, The reason is the disk is full on the appliance.

Reproduction/Solution

From the appliance, Run the df command to to initially check space on appliance disk looking for usage at or close to 100%

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# This check the file system usage (-h just means use 1024 as the divisor for space and 1000i.e. 1K = 2024 bytes, 1Mb = 1024K etc.). 
df -h 

Usage of 100% is blocking appliance stack starting

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# Check disk usage command (du) at the root level
du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 5

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remember o to check other locations as well

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# Force removal of all teh syslog files and any subfolders. Note: use rm command with care.
sudo rm -rf  /var/log/syslog*
# reboot appliance
sudo shutdown -r now

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