Hi Thanks for you prompt response. Given the age of the version I am running, I have low expectations around corrective action. I did read up bug reports where this issue was fixed prior to the release I have.
On a slightly wider issue, I have attempted to conduct troubleshooting on this problem. My "findings" include: - no known Linux application that will identify what process/program has created any given file. - I don't know of any marker that apt and related utilities might include in a file to identify the source utility. - I have looked at the /etc/apt/apt.conf/10Periodic file and turned on verbose "3" mode. No email was created when the cache file was created a 6:25am. - The MaxSize is set to "500" which is well under the capacity of the HD. Whichever program creates the cache files is ignoring the directory size limit. - The problem appears to have developed spontaneously without user intervention. - If there is a problem with a broken file, I don't know how to find it or fix it. Running "clean" gets rid of the cache files but doesn't stop them being created. In short, troubleshooting apt problems seems to be more difficult that it should be. Perhaps this may be an area worth working on in future releases. In the mean time, I will just set up a daily cron "clean" job to clear the cache. I don't expect any action or further discussion. Cheers Dazz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1658027 Title: pkgcache.bin.<random> files fill up drive Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hello This seems to be similar to bug 1050779. This occurred on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. apt-get version 0.8.16 compiled 8 Oct 2014. I have a headless remote webcam server connected via the mobile telephone network. A new file pkgcache.bin.xxxyyy (where xxxyyy are random letters/numbers) is generated each day with the same time stamp (0625 am) and gets added to the /var/cache/apt/ dir. This continues until the entire root partition is full and the server locks up. I understand that this should only happen if apt-get update is run but I don't do that. No one has access to run that command. I do not install any updates on the server once deployed. At present, the server has no connection to the internet, so these files are generated by the software on the server. I receive a daily report emailed from the server. apt-get is not listed as a running process when the report is run at 0730. What is worse is that this problem seems to have started itself. This server has been running since 2014 without issue. It has started to fill up the cache directory in the last 6 months for no obvious reasons. This has caused the server to lock up twice. I am clearing the files with a daily a crontab job to run apt-get clean. I checked the "apt" logs. There are no new entries from when initial installation was done. I have asked for help here : http://askubuntu.com/questions/873241/var-cache-apt-dir-filling-with-daily-pkgcache-bin-xxxyyy-files/873687#873687 without a response. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1658027/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
