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[Matt Falcon <falcon4@xxxxxxxxx>]

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!

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1269838

Title:
  gnome-session.log takes 8 GB in a few hours

Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello,

  On a fresh install of saucy 64 bits, ~/.cache/upstart/gnome-session.log grows incredibly fast. 8 GB in a few hours.
  Worked it around with a rm as cron task.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: upstart 1.10-0ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jan 16 16:02:23 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-10 (5 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UpstartBugCategory: Session
  UpstartRunningSessionCount: 1
  UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.10)
  UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.10)
  upstart.upstart-file-bridge.log:
   Job got added /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/unicast_2dlocal_2davahi
   Job got added /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/update_2dnotifier_2dcrash
   Job got added /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/update_2dnotifier_2drelease

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