[Bug 1284164] Re: ~/.cache/upstart grows enormous

[James Hunt]

This isn't really a bug with Upstart since it appears the problem is
that bamfdaemon is spamming dbus somehow. Upstart is simply logging the
output.

That said, there is an outstanding merge proposal to have the session
logrotate job run periodically which would have avoided so much disk
space being taken (although it would also potentially have caused the
bamfdaemon problem from being noticed):

https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/trusty/upstart/periodic-
logrotate

Once approved (and an FFE raised if necessary), this will resolve the
Upstart aspect of this issue.


** Also affects: dbus (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Package changed: dbus (Ubuntu) => bamf (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  ~/.cache/upstart grows enormous

Status in “bamf” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  
  $ du -hs ~/.cache/upstart/
  454M	/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/

  $ ls -altr ~/.cache/upstart/ | egrep "[0-9]{6,} "
  -rw-r-----  1 smoser smoser  14105029 Feb 10 08:53 gnome-session.log
  -rw-r-----  1 smoser smoser   3112634 Feb 23 23:09 gnome-settings-daemon.log
  -rw-r-----  1 smoser smoser   1179973 Feb 24 08:29 indicator-application.log
  -rw-r-----  1 smoser smoser   4129955 Feb 24 09:31 hud.log
  -rw-r-----  1 smoser smoser  18668572 Feb 24 10:13 unity-panel-service.log
  -rw-r-----  1 smoser smoser 429582393 Feb 24 10:13 dbus.log
  -rw-r-----  1 smoser smoser   3708061 Feb 24 10:13 gnome-session-ubuntu.log

  $ uptime
   10:15:17 up 14 days,  1:20, 24 users,  load average: 1.09, 0.95, 1.33

  I suspect my desktop has been logged in and being used for about 14
  days, but clearly not longer.  Also, it has gone through 'apt-get
  dist-upgrade' in that time (those are possible excuses for the above).

  However, I have 450M of data in a ~/.cache/upstart and 430M in a
  single file.

  I'll attach the log shortly.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: upstart 1.11-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.27-generic 3.13.2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Feb 24 10:11:04 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-19 (859 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen-bce
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-05-20 (280 days ago)
  UpstartBugCategory: Session
  UpstartRunningSessionCount: 1
  UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.11)
  UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.11)

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