Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote : > On Monday, 10 September 2018 09:49:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've been suffering some very odd problems recently, including lost > e-mails, > > but I've finally found something that could explain them all: disk space > > down to zero in /home. > > > > My ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log had grown to 15G! > > Ouch! This is rather large.
Indeed. :( > > It was mostly full of repetitions of this: > > > > [warn] epoll_wait: Bad file descriptor > > > > I didn't have the patience to search backwards to find the last entry > before > > those, so I can't be certain what process was spamming me; I just have to > > assume it was sddm, since that's whose directory the log was in. Update: I had another Konsole open yesterday, from which I'd last issued an akonadictl restart command. Those warnings were scrolling by faster that I could read them. > > Is this common experience? I don't see anything on bgo, and that nice Mr > > Google hasn't helped either. > > This file is meant to be recreated each time you login as that particular > user. On a buggy desktop here I have 13M and on a quiet desktop I have 0.9M > after a couple of hours since login. I'm not back up to speed yet, having begun yet another installation from bare silicon and created yet another new user for myself. I know I've lost some e-mails; I'm using webmail to write this. -- Regards, Peter.
