Log directory fills hard disk regularly

[brunwin]

I've had to write a script to clear out my beagle log file. Otherwise I can't login because of a lack of disk space. The output from the script from 1400 till a few moments ago (2200) is below. The partition I've installed Ubuntu on on my hard disk fills every couple of weeks.
I installed beagle while I was running Ubuntu 6.06, now I'm running 6.10 the problem has occurred.

Working with /home/nick/.beagle/Log
Removing 2006-11-20-14-22-07-IndexHelper , it is 4108 bytes
Removing 2006-11-20-18-25-17-Beagle , it is 519355970 bytes
Removing 2006-11-20-18-25-17-BeagleExceptions , it is 496654670 bytes
Removing 2006-11-20-18-27-35-IndexHelper , it is 28737 bytes
Removing 2006-11-20-20-29-23-IndexHelper , it is 3908 bytes
Removing 2006-11-20-21-36-28-IndexHelper , it is 13329 bytes
In total 1016060722 B deleted
In total 992246.798828 KiB
In total 968.991014481 MiB
In total 0.946280287579 GiB

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

You're luck! My hdd fills in 1 day! 512mb... I will analize the log file to understand what it contains.

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

I get something like this too. Luckily my home is on a big partition, I didn't notice any problems until now.

See some info below. All this is on an up-to-date Feisty.

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$ du /home/bogdanb/.beagle/ -h --max-depth=1
1.6G /home/bogdanb/.beagle/Log
46M /home/bogdanb/.beagle/Indexes
14M /home/bogdanb/.beagle/TextCache
12K /home/bogdanb/.beagle/config
0 /home/bogdanb/.beagle/ToIndex
1.7G /home/bogdanb/.beagle/

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~/.beagle/Log$ ls -l
total 1626078
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 707988 2007-01-16 18:00 2007-01-16-10-41-35-Beagle
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3122 2007-01-16 10:54 2007-01-16-10-41-35-BeagleConsole
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 4330 2007-01-16 12:58 2007-01-16-10-41-35-BeagleExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 11770075 2007-01-16 15:08 2007-01-16-10-42-43-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3122 2007-01-16 10:54 2007-01-16-10-42-43-IndexHelperConsole
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 9343 2007-01-16 14:24 2007-01-16-10-42-43-IndexHelperExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 328939 2007-01-16 21:04 2007-01-16-18-02-11-Beagle
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3985 2007-01-16 20:29 2007-01-16-19-47-24-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 785766 2007-01-18 13:24 2007-01-16-21-06-05-Beagle
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3123 2007-01-17 16:41 2007-01-16-21-06-05-BeagleConsole
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 396420 2007-01-17 21:42 2007-01-16-21-06-05-BeagleExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3170 2007-01-16 21:46 2007-01-16-21-16-14-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3474 2007-01-16 22:20 2007-01-16-21-50-34-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3013 2007-01-17 16:03 2007-01-17-15-33-27-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 1555 2007-01-17 15:33 2007-01-17-15-33-27-IndexHelperExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 98547 2007-01-17 18:10 2007-01-17-16-06-12-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3151 2007-01-17 16:47 2007-01-17-16-06-12-IndexHelperConsole
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 62200 2007-01-17 17:40 2007-01-17-16-06-12-IndexHelperExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 1709 2007-01-17 19:02 2007-01-17-18-32-30-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 2268 2007-01-17 21:41 2007-01-17-20-42-22-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 5029 2007-01-17 22:20 2007-01-17-21-41-56-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 1555 2007-01-17 21:42 2007-01-17-21-41-56-IndexHelperExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 339380 2007-01-18 15:02 2007-01-18-13-41-53-Beagle
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 1495 2007-01-18 14:37 2007-01-18-13-41-53-BeagleExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 9385 2007-01-18 15:02 2007-01-18-13-51-59-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 3248 2007-01-18 14:21 2007-01-18-13-51-59-IndexHelperExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 11031 2007-01-18 15:07 2007-01-18-15-05-50-Beagle
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 1495 2007-01-18 15:05 2007-01-18-15-05-50-BeagleExceptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 1480 2007-01-18 15:07 2007-01-18-15-06-59-IndexHelper
-rw-r--r-- 1 bogdanb bogdanb 1173369 2007-01-20 00:52 2...

[Durand D'souza (durand1)]

I've had this error before. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419389

All I did to remove it was delete all the big log files in .beagle/Log/. It seemed that beagle kept looping on one file creating a huge log that filled my partition. You could use a livecd and install baobab, use that to find which files are the biggest, then just delete them. I didnt notice any problems after that.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

This should be fixed in 0.2.16.1. Please reopen this bug if it still occurs to you.