Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #1772677
  2. Comment #56

Comment 56 for bug 1772677

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Kevin Knapp (kbknapp) wrote : Re: gnome-shell filling up syslog with thousands of entries with stack traces ending in osdWindow.js (lines 206/207 in bionic, lines 223/224 in cosmic)

I just got hit with this bug as well. Fresh Ubuntu 18.10 install on a Desktop (Ryzen 2995x, 32GB RAM, Vega 64, 250GB NVMe /, and 1TB Evo 860 SSD /home) with two monitors (1 vertical using DP, and one horizontal using HDMI), only thing I did post install was install a few flatpaks from flathub (Discord, Telegram, VSCode, Slack), and a snap (CLion) as well as a Rust toolchain (https://rustup.rs). Went to bed, went to work the next morning, and when I came up the computer appeared to be frozen as it wouldn't wake from sleep. After a hard reset and login, I noticed I couldn't do an update do to "disk full". Checked `df` and saw `/` was full. Quick checking of dirs lead to `/var/log/syslog` being 230GB from a single night/day of no use!

My plan is to do a re-install (with Kubuntu which is what it was prior to this install), however if there is something else I can provide that would help track down this bug I will (assuming I see a message prior to the nuke/pave).