Re: Disk full phenomena
Yuri Chornoivan <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:45:46 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.games |
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| Organization | S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
субота, 13 березня 2021 р. 00:10:47 EET Ray Olsen написано: > Hi Kde developers > > I have started having a weird experience using Kpat and running the > Forty & Eight game. There is an existing Linux problem (at least ten > years old) that clouds the issue, so I am looking for some information. > > I am using a desktop with: > AsRock H470M-ITX/ac > I3-10100 Intel processor > 8MB memory > NVME HDD 256GB (126GB partition) > Ubuntu Mate 20.04.2 LTS > KDE game Package > > After playing several hands of Forty & Eight I got a message that I was > low on HDD space. So I looked in my Home directory, and found two > hidden files, each one having multiple gigabytes of data: > > .xsession-errors > .xsession-errors.old > > I read some linux stuff and learned that the linux folks have allowed > applications folks to set up an error text file and then redirect that > data to a system file that houses error messages. I believe what they > told me is that other applications can also redirct stuff to the same > hidden file in my home directory. I see that in my /$HOME/etc/x11 > directory there is a script which accomplishes this redirection > (Xsession), I think at login. In the same script it will trim the file > to 500000 to prevent it from getting too big. However, I think this trim > only happens at login. YIKES!!! > > Conceptually, there should not be a lot of errors and this file > shouldn't get very big. So I looked at the data and found many, many > lines of text that look like something I would print if I were > debugging the program. But I would not leave that posting in for a > released version of the game, and yet, there it is. > > In the process of looking for help on the Internet, I found many > reported problems of people getting full disk warnings, going as far > back as 2009. It appears the linux keepers have not found a suitable > way to exorcise this dilemma. I bring this up because my kpat problem is > embedded with the root problem of filling the HDD. Sometimes a two step > problem confuses the fixing of each of the steps. > > I am hoping someone will look at the symptoms I have sent, and convince > the author of Forty and Eight that removing the output that is filling > the error log would be a good thing. > > Thank you for listening > > Ray Olsen > [email protected] > nestled in the beautiful mountains of northern Idaho Hi, Can you try export QT_LOGGING_RULES="default.debug=false" ? Thanks in advance for your answer. Best regards, Yuri