syslog filled with over 200GB of logs in a matter of hours - suspect related to gsconnect

[Lilo Elia]

after software update, i got notification on disk full.
investigating it, i found that the var/log/syslog got to around 250GB.
I deleted the log file, and a couple of hours later it again reached this size.
The log contains a lot of:

Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.GSConnect[2380]: == Stack trace for context 0x55c4b0f2e1a0 ==
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 gjs[2380]: Attempting to run a JS callback during garbage collection. This is most likely caused by destroying a Clutter actor or GTK widget with ::destroy signal connected, or using the destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs. Because it would crash the application, it has been blocked.
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.GSConnect[2380]: #0 55c4b0fddcf0 i /<email address hidden>/service/daemon.js:729 (20feacc8d178 @ 963)
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 gjs[2380]: The offending callback was SourceFunc().
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.GSConnect[2380]: == Stack trace for context 0x55c4b0f2e1a0 ==
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.GSConnect[2380]: #0 55c4b0fddcf0 i /<email address hidden>/service/daemon.js:729 (20feacc8d178 @ 963)
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 gjs[2380]: Attempting to run a JS callback during garbage collection. This is most likely caused by destroying a Clutter actor or GTK widget with ::destroy signal connected, or using the destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs. Because it would crash the application, it has been blocked.
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 gjs[2380]: The offending callback was SourceFunc().
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.GSConnect[2380]: == Stack trace for context 0x55c4b0f2e1a0 ==
Jan 26 19:57:39 stitch-xps-15-9560 org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.GSConnect[2380]: #0 55c4b0fddcf0 i /<email address hidden>/service/daemon.js:729 (20feacc8d178 @ 963)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-40.45~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.14
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jan 26 21:00:24 2021
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-01-11 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Also tracking in:

https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/988

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Or maybe it should be tracked in:

https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/588

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Considering the version of gsconnect in the archive for focal does not actually work with gnome-shell in focal (it's too old), this doesn't apply here. Closing as invalid.