~/.xsession-errors is 2.7gb big (and growing), on fresh install, caused by gnome-settings-daemon errors
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Published on 2010-11-20T03:37:18Z
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I've just installed Ubuntu 10.10 x64, activated the recommended Nvidia drivers, and I noticed my hard disk space is disappearing, I narrowed the culprit down to this:
alex@alex-home:~$ ls -la .x* -rw------- 1 alex alex 4436076400 2010-11-19 22:35 .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 alex alex 10495 2010-11-19 21:46 .xsession-errors.old
Any idea what this file is, why its so big, and why its growing? A few seconds later:
alex@alex-home:~$ ls -la .x* -rw------- 1 alex alex 5143604317 2010-11-19 22:36 .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 alex alex 10495 2010-11-19 21:46 .xsession-errors.old
tailing it:
alex@alex-home:~$ tail .xsession-errors (gnome-settings-daemon:1514): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:1514): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:1514): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:1514): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:1514): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Also, the process "gnome-settings" seems to be using 100% cpu:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1514 alex 20 0 268m 10m 7044 R 100 0.1 7:06.10 gnome-settings-
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