Comment 8 for bug 146243

I'm also having this problem, with it having created 7GB of error logs in less than 24 hours filling up my /home partition.

The errors in my case seemed to be...

17 Nov 2007, 23:19:21:915 - ERROR: CreateService uri is /home/mendez/.local/share/applications/vlc-usercustom.desktop
17 Nov 2007, 23:19:21:915 - ERROR: could not get file id for /home/mendez/.local/share/applications/vlc-usercustom.desktop - unable to continue indexing this file
17 Nov 2007, 23:19:21:916 - ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11

And as these started after an unexpected loss of power I can believe that it is caused by database corruption (or possibly filesystem - I'd installed VLC prior to the power loss) so I'm doing a reindex.

My suggestion would be that if the program encounters more than a certain continuous number of errors it simply shuts itself down (or black lists the files causing the error if that's more appropriate). I can't see any merit in it persisting, nor to creating huge volumes of logs no-one is likely to ever wade through. It's also made worse by the logs being in /home - it would be much better if they were saved to /var - I've just had problems saving work due to home being unexpectedly full.