Oddball behavior on laptop with Xubuntu 22.04.1

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 9:44 PM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
:
>
> Suddenly it has lots of space and an enormous auth.log, which contains
> 37Gb of this error set:
>
> Oct 11 21:31:09 marLG17Z90N systemd-logind[612]: Suspending...
> Oct 11 21:31:09 marLG17Z90N systemd-logind[612]: Unit suspend.target
> is masked, refusing operation.
> Oct 11 21:31:09 marLG17Z90N systemd-logind[612]: Failed to execute
> suspend operation: Permission denied
>
Specifically:

root at marLG17Z90N:~# grep "Suspending..." /var/log/auth.log | wc -l
106466877
root at marLG17Z90N:~#

That's 106,466,877 times.

??106466877??