Maybe it is because I am lacking in free disk space, take a look:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 1.9G 208M 1.6G 12% /
none 998M 192K 998M 1% /dev
none 1002M 0 1002M 0% /dev/shm
none 1002M 56K 1002M 1% /var/run
none 1002M 0 1002M 0% /var/lock
none 1002M 0 1002M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1 92M 24M 63M 28% /boot
/dev/sda8 434G 199M 412G 1% /home
/dev/sda6 9.2G 495M 8.3G 6% /usr
/dev/sda7 9.2G 8.8G 0 100% /var
/var is at 100% utilization.
Perhaps this is the reason?