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[Bug 1240848] Re: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner

 

To be clear: I removed the file before rebooting, but it got regenerated
and refilled at a furious pace, with the same message: _xgeWireToEvent:
Unknown extension 148, this should never happen.

At that time, "top" was reporting upstart as the most process, obviously
caught in an infinite loop throwing this erroor about the extension 148.

It seems like this is the bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1369113

And it seems that the spamming, at least, would be removed with an
upgrade of libXext to 1.3.3. Or at least, it would be nice to backport
the relevant patch

http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/22124/

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Title:
  ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and
  mediascanner

Status in Unity:
  New
Status in “mediascanner” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I just noticed that ~/.cache/upstart/ folder on my computer is taking
  up 69GB of space. Upon further investigation, I found out that
  mediascanner.log and unity-panel-service.log take 12GB and 54GB of
  space respectively.

  I'm not entirely sure if this is related to upstart as I had removed
  logrotate package because of a conflict.

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