Comment 5 for bug 720833

Hi,

This .xession-errors runaway file problem has stuck again, and this time it's repeatable. If I run abiword on this machine, it acts strangely -- I can type in a few characters and then it looks up (but gnome never offers to close it -- and when I close it sometime the abiword process ends, sometimes it doesn't. Also, sometimes the abiword window closes, sometimes it doesn't. Regardless, once I attempt to terminate Abiword, either it or some other process unknown to me at this time runs away and my $HOME/.xession-errors files grows by about 100Mb per minute. This will eventually fill up the partition (/home) and lock up the machine, but I've learned that if I remove the .xsession-error file, the partition stops filling. HOWEVER, there is then a discrepancy between what 'du -sh /home' reports and 'df -h /home' report. My /home is a 3.5Gb partition. Right now, du -sh shows usage 1.2Gb (which is correct), but df -h reports 1.4Gb. One time when the .xsession-error file nearly filed the partition, du -sh would still report 1.2Gb after I removed .xession-errors, but df -h reported 3.4Gb used. In this latter case, the machine eventually locked up anyway (after 30-40 minutes). So, I'm beginning to wonder if filesystem corruption is a part of this. I'm about to log out and unmount and remount /home so as to (hopefully) not lock up again here in a few minutes.

I've attached the last 500 lines of these .xession-errors files from the last two times abiword has done this (which, BTW, is every time I run it, hence the defect is determinant). I included previously the .xession-errors messages from when NSPlugin did this. So, I'm pretty sure we're looking at a more structural problem here than just typical Adobe Flash nonsense.

Thanks,
Doug