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[Gabriel de Perthuis <1502971@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I mentioned the size, about 60 gigabytes. I think it filled up my disk in half an hour or so, before I figured out who the culprit was.
Truncating on startup didn't prevent anything, it just grows way too fast and there's nothing to prevent that, unlike most logs which truncate periodically. Given how bad the failure mode is (the machine gets slow, it's hard to diagnose where the missing space is), and the fact that the log is not useful outside of specific steps taken to characterise a bug, this log should not be enabled without user action.

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Title:
  banshee log grows to tens of gigabytes, filling the disk

Status in banshee package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The --redirect-log option in banshee.desktop can fill the home filesystem.
  Reporting this because I had an unwelcome surprise; I would recommend removing this option from the desktop file.
  People who want to report issues are already instructed to launch banshee --redirect-log manually.

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