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

[Scott Moser]

Some info here,
  It seems that I had a bad 'status' file in ~/.cache/logrotate/status somehow.
~/.cache/upstart/logrotate.conf said:
error: bad top line in state file /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status

$ ls -l /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status
-rw-r--r-- 1 smoser smoser 385 May 31  2013 /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status

after removing that file, then logrotate functions again.

Not sure what could have caused it, but there was binary data in that
file when I looked, and 'file' determined it to be 'data' (ie, it was
not gzipped, or xml or anything that made sense to me).

After removal and then:
 start logrotate

$ file /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status
/home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status: ASCII text
$ tail -n 5 /home/smoser/.cache/logrotate/status
"/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/unity.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52
"/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/gnome-settings-daemon.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52
"/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/window-stack-bridge.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52
"/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/update-notifier-release.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52
"/home/smoser/.cache/upstart/update-notifier-crash-_var_crash__bin_bash.1000.crash.log" 2014-3-5-11:16:52

So it would seem something screwed up that file and I was forever stuck.

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Title:
  ~/.cache/upstart grows enormous

Status in “dbus” 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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