** Description changed: Hi, I'm running Kubuntu Dapper, freshly dist-upgraded, on a Compaq Presario V2610CA laptop, with no particular esoteric configuration. In the past 2 weeks, my disk space has been saturated **TWICE** (i.e. up to 100% occ. reported by the "df -h" command, with app. 10 MB available, just enough to be able to boot/login) by what seems an ever- - groing .xsession-errors file in one user directory. i.e. /home/user). + growing .xsession-errors file in one user directory. i.e. /home/user). After a quick search on Google, I've found 2 similar reports (one concerning Dapper, the other OpenSuse): http://www.nabble.com/X-error-log-t1364627.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2005-10/msg00044.html However, I didn't find anything related to this problem on Launchpad... It 's quite possible that something is going wrong with my system and is filling the .xsession-errors file with various reports. I did not have the chance to pinpoint what's going wrong since my only concern was to prevent my system from completely crashing. That's why I deleted the file without trying to look at its content (my system was saturated to a point that I could not receive one simple e-mail, Kmail complaining about the lack of disk space...). The only thing I know is that since 2 weeks, I use more frequently Skype and I have created a second user - account for my wife to be able to receive her e-mails with Kmail and + account for my wife to be able to manger her e-mails with Kmail and browse the Web with Konqueror a little bit. Nothing so complex or heavy... Anyway, this report is not about what's going wrong with my system, but instead about the fact that an error-log file, like .xsession-errors, that is suppose to be useful to track problems, should not be the cause - of a major critical problems like the lack of disk space! I don't know + of a major critical problem like the lack of disk space! I don't know what would be a satifying solution, but in my case I've set up a script - to errase this file in root and all user's directory at each hour, by + to erase this file in root and all users directory at each hour, by putting an executable file with this content in /etc/cron.hourly: rm /home/*/.xsession-errors* rm /root/.xsession-errors* Thanks for your attention.
** Description changed: Hi, I'm running Kubuntu Dapper, freshly dist-upgraded, on a Compaq Presario V2610CA laptop, with no particular esoteric configuration. In the past 2 weeks, my disk space has been saturated **TWICE** (i.e. up to 100% occ. reported by the "df -h" command, with app. 10 MB available, just enough to be able to boot/login) by what seems an ever- growing .xsession-errors file in one user directory. i.e. /home/user). After a quick search on Google, I've found 2 similar reports (one concerning Dapper, the other OpenSuse): http://www.nabble.com/X-error-log-t1364627.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2005-10/msg00044.html However, I didn't find anything related to this problem on Launchpad... It 's quite possible that something is going wrong with my system and is filling the .xsession-errors file with various reports. I did not have the chance to pinpoint what's going wrong since my only concern was to prevent my system from completely crashing. That's why I deleted the file without trying to look at its content (my system was saturated to a point that I could not receive one simple e-mail, Kmail complaining about the lack of disk space...). The only thing I know is that since 2 weeks, I use more frequently Skype and I have created a second user account for my wife to be able to manger her e-mails with Kmail and browse the Web with Konqueror a little bit. Nothing so complex or heavy... Anyway, this report is not about what's going wrong with my system, but instead about the fact that an error-log file, like .xsession-errors, - that is suppose to be useful to track problems, should not be the cause + that is supposed to be useful to track problems, should not be the cause of a major critical problem like the lack of disk space! I don't know what would be a satifying solution, but in my case I've set up a script to erase this file in root and all users directory at each hour, by putting an executable file with this content in /etc/cron.hourly: rm /home/*/.xsession-errors* rm /root/.xsession-errors* Thanks for your attention. -- .xsession_errors file grows out of control & saturates disk space https://launchpad.net/bugs/60448 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
