[xubuntu-users] 220GB /var/log/uvcydnctrl-udev.log

[Charles M]

Hi all,

We had someone who ran into an issue with their Xubuntu laptop: a Dell
Precision M4800 Laptop running Xubuntu 22.04.

Initial symptoms were simply that the desktop environment wouldn't
load. I booted a live environment and noticed that the SSD was 100%
full.

After digging I noticed that almost all the space was being used by a
single log file: /var/log/uvcydnctrl-udev.log

AFAIK Xubuntu doesn't install anything related to this file in the
default install, so for many of you this might not apply.

We install a few webcam related programs as part of our default
installation that might touch this program: Zoom (from .deb),
Guvcview, and Cheese. At this point we're not sure which program was
the culprit (for the creation of the large log file), but we saw one
suggestion to remove uvcdynctrl. The person making the suggestion
indicated that removing it didn't seem to affect programs like Zoom.
We're going to test it on our end and see how true this statement is.

Has anyone else on the list run into this webcam-related log file
large file issue?

Cheers

Charles