Public bug reported:
The problem really is that .xsession-errors file in the /home/<user> directory
is allowed to grow to an unlimited size. On my system this file got filled with
error messages from indicator-weather and filled up my entire disk.
manjo@lazy:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 44G 42G 353M 100% /
udev 7.8G 4.0K 7.8G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 1016K 3.2G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 7.8G 604K 7.8G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 95M 118K 95M 1% /boot/efi
overflow 1.0M 92K 932K 9% /tmp
manjo@lazy:~$
Of which .xsession-errors.old file accounts for 31GB
-rw------- 1 manjo manjo 5.4K May 17 09:13 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 manjo manjo 31G May 16 21:03 .xsession-errors.old
You might be able to solve this problem if you delete the .xsessions-
errors file once it grows to say 1GB or even better create it in /tmp so
that it is removed on shutdown and does not eat up my full disk space.
This bug renders the system useless, I cant even file a bug with ubuntu-
bug, and it is very hard to find out what is eating up the disk space
since .xsession-error.old is a hidden file any normal user will have no
clue what just eat up his disk.
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
Status: New
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
** Summary changed:
- [12.04] .xsession-errors getting spammed filling up the disk.
+ [12.04] [ Precise] .xsession-errors getting spammed filling up the disk.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000775
Title:
[12.04] [ Precise] .xsession-errors getting spammed filling up the
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