Comment 2 for bug 499952

Just a quick addendum, the information in the previous reply was added automatically by the bug reporter in Ubuntu and doesn't seem to contain the actual errors I described above, or much information that seems particularly useful in troubleshooting this, probably because I selected to report the bug from the Help menu in System Monitor.

Also, System Monitor worked the first time I opened it when the disk was full, it was only after subsequent reopenings (just a couple) that it ended up clearing the xml files. I assume that it actually cleared them on exiting.