God, I wish I could edit replies. A little more analysis, and it seems like I've thrown a little more of the puzzle together.
When I tried running it, I tried opening it directly from the file browser. That did nothing. But, apparently, it did actually do "something" - it ran in the background! My guess is that it got launched in a way that it hides the terminal output and expects a GUI to be created. So it kept feeding it blank lines each time it tries prompting for input. Hence, the "Type 'Yes' or 'No'", "(Yes/No)" repeating over and over until it filled the hard drive, as well as the high CPU and disk activity around the time I was trying to run it. Also explains why I didn't have this issue when I tried fixing the networking problem later - the log file was stable after I deleted it and rebooted. So, maybe this is caused by a terminal program being launched with the file manager trying to open it as a GUI program instead of as a terminal program, then constantly sending it blank responses for each input, and the program rejects those responses in an infinite loop! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1269838 Title: gnome-session.log takes 8 GB in a few hours To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1269838/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
