entire HD filled with syslog files ?mate.panel.applet

[David]

Linux Mint 18.1 upgraded to 18.2 via gui updater - all save kernel version still 4.4.0-53-generic.

Ran out of drive space on a fairly new installation. /var/log dir is HUGE. tail syslog gives following:

Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular colord[1106]: (colord:1106): Cd-WARNING **: failed to get session [pid 28580]: No such device or address
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (2): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (1): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (2): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (2): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (1): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (2): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (2): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (1): stub
Oct 28 00:07:19 jagular org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1629]: fixme:ole:OleRevokeClientDoc (2): stub

tried killall mate-panel, didn't appear to help. Restarted computer and rotated and deleted log files. Appears to be back to normal operation.

I have no idea what goes on here or how one would go about reproducing the event, but am thinking that handling of such an event might be improved if this turns out to be a common problem?

[Alan Thompson (keys84)]

Same bug but with a different cause
seems to be triggered by mintmenu applet faults and error handling

Jan 7 23:16:46 n org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1550]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter. Returning 0.
Jan 7 23:16:46 n org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1550]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_status() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter. Returning 0.
Jan 7 23:16:46 n org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1550]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter. Returning 0.
Jan 7 23:16:46 n org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1550]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_status() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter. Returning 0.
Jan 7 23:16:46 n org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[1550]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter. Returning 0.

continues for 24GB - fills root (was 29GB/30GB last time)

[Alan Thompson (keys84)]

Release Linux Mint 18 Sarah 64-bit
Kernel Linux 4.4.0-104-generic x86_64
MATE 1.14.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mate-panel (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]