Bug 386686

Summary:	.xsession-errors file grows until it completely fills the HDD while running Kodi
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	jackrooster <jacquerooster123>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Neon Bugs <neon-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	crash	CC:	jacquerooster123, jr, neon-bugs, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
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Description jackrooster 2017-11-09 18:22:16 UTC

I left my computer alone for a few hours. When I left, there was ~100GB of free space in the /Home directory on my laptop. When I came back there was zero free space. I moved a couple of large files to an external drive. Dolphin showed there was 2.5 GB free space, so I decided to move a few more files to the external drive. As I was moving them, Dolphin was showing less and less free space available! In less than 5 minutes, I watched it go from 2.5GB free, down to ~850MB. After rebooting the laptop, it showed 100GB of free space once again. This happened repeatedly. Eventually, I discovered a file called ".xsessions-errors" was the culprit and that this only happened when running Kodi.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2017-11-23 02:06:00 UTC

I suggest to report it to Kodi authors. You might need to report which line is repeated in debug output.

Comment 2 jackrooster 2018-01-23 14:56:41 UTC

It happened again yesterday on a fresh install of Neon. Not sure if it is only with Kodi because there are other bug reports about this same problem from other users running different apps. I posted this problem on the KDE Facebook page in November and the solution was to change the compositor from the default (OpenGL 2.0) to xrender.