[Dx-packages] [Bug 1240848] Re: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner

2014-11-12 Thread Leo Milano
To be clear: I removed the file before rebooting, but it got regenerated and refilled at a furious pace, with the same message: _xgeWireToEvent: Unknown extension 148, this should never happen. At that time, "top" was reporting upstart as the most process, obviously caught in an infinite loop thro

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1240848] Re: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner

2014-11-12 Thread Leo Milano
It just happened here. I will need to clean up and reboot. This is how it looks like lmilano@grisell:upstart$ ls -lh unity7.log -rw-r- 1 lmilano users 53G Nov 12 16:03 unity7.log lmilano@grisell:upstart$ tail unity7.log _xgeWireToEvent: Unknown extension 148, this should never happen. _xgeWi

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1240848] Re: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner

2014-11-12 Thread Leo Milano
Ok, before rebooting, I just removed the offending file. It is growing at a rate of 1Gb every 10s or so. I will try logging out and in, and see if the log is still growing continuously ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1240848] Re: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner

2014-10-26 Thread Leo Milano
Same here. My 120Gb SSD just filled up. Good thing I'm an advanced user and I could manage to find the offending folder. A newbie would just need to give up. The harddrive analyzer would not give any info (maybe because the disk was full). In my case, it was unity7.log, which was about 50Gb. Is t