Just chiming in that this has effected me as well. Usually get the 'disk space is low' warning, then an 'rm -rf ~/.cache/upstart' clears up the issue. This has happened multiple times. Just tried removing logrotate and reinstalled as someone recommended earlier in the thread.
Running 14.04.1, base Ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240848 Title: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner Status in Unity: New Status in “mediascanner” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I just noticed that ~/.cache/upstart/ folder on my computer is taking up 69GB of space. Upon further investigation, I found out that mediascanner.log and unity-panel-service.log take 12GB and 54GB of space respectively. I'm not entirely sure if this is related to upstart as I had removed logrotate package because of a conflict. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1240848/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
