OMG!! This bug almost cost me my job!!! I filled out our filled server with 430GB!!! then it crashed the VMware machine and it took me hours to recover it. People could not do anything, scann, save, nothing because the drive was full!! This is a horrible bug. Please somebody point me out to a solution.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000775 Title: [12.04] [ Precise] .xsession-errors getting spammed filling up the disk. Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1000775/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
