[Bug 720833] Re: *** NSPlugin Viewer runaway errors are causing .xsession-errors file to fill hard drive partition

[Doug Morse]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 498911 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498911

Hi,

This .xession-errors runaway file problem has stuck again, and this time
it's repeatable.  If I run abiword on this machine, it acts strangely --
I can type in a few characters and then it looks up (but gnome never
offers to close it -- and when I close it sometime the abiword process
ends, sometimes it doesn't.  Also, sometimes the abiword window closes,
sometimes it doesn't.  Regardless, once I attempt to terminate Abiword,
either it or some other process unknown to me at this time runs away and
my $HOME/.xession-errors files grows by about 100Mb per minute.  This
will eventually fill up the partition (/home) and lock up the machine,
but I've learned that if I remove the .xsession-error file, the
partition stops filling.  HOWEVER, there is then a discrepancy between
what 'du -sh /home' reports and 'df -h /home' report.  My /home is a
3.5Gb partition.  Right now, du -sh shows usage 1.2Gb (which is
correct), but df -h reports 1.4Gb.  One time when the .xsession-error
file nearly filed the partition, du -sh would still report 1.2Gb after I
removed .xession-errors, but df -h reported 3.4Gb used.  In this latter
case, the machine eventually locked up anyway (after 30-40 minutes).
So, I'm beginning to wonder if filesystem corruption is a part of this.
I'm about to log out and unmount and remount /home so as to (hopefully)
not lock up again here in a few minutes.

I've attached the last 500 lines of these .xession-errors files from the
last two times abiword has done this (which, BTW, is every time I run
it, hence the defect is determinant).  I included previously the
.xession-errors messages from when NSPlugin did this.  So, I'm pretty
sure we're looking at a more structural problem here than just typical
Adobe Flash nonsense.

Thanks,
Doug


** Attachment added: "xsession-errors"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/+bug/720833/+attachment/2061742/+files/xsession-errors

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Title:
  *** NSPlugin Viewer runaway errors are causing .xsession-errors file
  to fill hard drive partition