don't think deleting will work, because the OS process has a hold on the file. you may need to log out or reboot to get rid of it...if you can, because the system becomes unresponsive. good luck. /iaw
---- Ivo Welch ([email protected]) http://www.ivo-welch.info/ J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance Anderson School at UCLA, C519 Director, UCLA Anderson Fink Center for Finance and Investments Free Finance Textbook, http://book.ivo-welch.info/ Editor, Critical Finance Review, http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:34 AM, vega12 <[email protected]> wrote: > In my case, it is Rhythmbox that has filled the .xsession-errors file. > I used less on that file, jumped to the end of the file, and paged up. > For about a minute, all I could see where the lines: > > (rhythmbox-metadata:29775): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: > gst_bus_timed_pop_filtered: assertion `timeout == 0 || bus->priv->poll > != NULL' failed > > over and over again. The xession-errors file is 27 GB, and has now > maxed out my system. I am going to delete this log file and if it keeps > filling up, I might have to do some fiddling to keep it from being > written to. I wish I could find out why this is failing though, to > cause all these errors. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175386 > > Title: > .xsession fills up with gstreamer junk, then system effectively dies > > Status in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > > the junk in .xsession looks like this: > > GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bus_timed_pop_filtered: assertion `timeout > == 0 || bus->priv->poll != NULL' failed > > this wouldn't be so bad if this couldn't fill up many gigabytes in a > hurry...in fact enough to effectively bring the system to a halt. > > I would think this would be critical bug. lsof tells me that > gstreamer plugs into all sorts of other processes, which means that > even deleting the .xsession file does not fix the problem. basically, > it seems to require a reboot. > > /iaw > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1175386/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175386 Title: .xsession fills up with gstreamer junk, then system effectively dies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1175386/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
