Some info here, It seems that I had a bad 'status' file in ~/.cache/logrotate/status somehow. ~/.cache/upstart/logrotate.conf said: error: bad top line in state file /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status
$ ls -l /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status -rw-r--r-- 1 smoser smoser 385 May 31 2013 /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status after removing that file, then logrotate functions again. Not sure what could have caused it, but there was binary data in that file when I looked, and 'file' determined it to be 'data' (ie, it was not gzipped, or xml or anything that made sense to me). After removal and then: start logrotate $ file /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status: ASCII text $ tail -n 5 /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status "/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/unity.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52 "/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/gnome-settings-daemon.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52 "/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/window-stack-bridge.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52 "/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/update-notifier-release.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52 "/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/update-notifier-crash-_var_crash__bin_bash.1000.crash.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52 So it would seem something screwed up that file and I was forever stuck. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1284164 Title: ~/.cache/upstart grows enormous To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/1284164/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
