Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
Gnome disk utility found a failing disk through SMART. Launching the utility
generated so many xsession errors that it made a disk filling .xsession-errors
file in the active user's home directory. In this case over 17g
In this case the home directory was not stored on the failing drive but this
should be fixed because it could cause a failing drive to fail further. If
there is not a separate /home mount point and no disk quotas a full disk can
nearly disable the system.
The drive was part of an array. After the drive was removed and the array was
rebuilt the disk utility was no longer triggered and the .xsession-errors file
which was very quickly over 17g stopped being generated.
While I did not retain the large file i could get further information from the
"empty" blocks of that drive.
If interested I can mount /home with quotas and reproduce the problem but
generate a smaller file.
As a side note this has a confluence with ext4 quirks. The file system
was ext4 and disk space was not reclaimed by a simple rm but was
reclaimed after a reboot. Restarting gnome did not help.
** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: xorg xsession-errors
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Gnome Disk Utility generated a 17g .xsession-errors file when a bad dirve was
detected and investigated
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519480
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